Erhnam Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 According to this article ( http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/macbookpro.ars/6 ) the performance of the hacked version 10.4.4 is barely better than an old G4. I'm still wondering why maxxuss is using the old kernel back from the early dev kits... Maxxuss is there any way to fix this? Maybe you can investigate better in hacking the new kernel than replacing it with the old one. See results below: Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11016-maxuss-please-fix-performance/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
xiberia Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 i'm cautious about this. it says they "borrowed a friends laptop with OSX 10.4.4 installed on it". I wonder how optimised it was? Did it have all the correct drivers working? Was the gfx card working with QI/CI? And why is the Dell only on 10.4.4 and the others on 10.4.5? I would like to see these benchmarks run again, this time against a fully optimised x86 install. saying that though, it would be nice if we could get updated kernels. Maybe Maxxuss is waiting for 10.4.6 first (which should be released sometime in the next month) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11016-maxuss-please-fix-performance/#findComment-69076 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antman Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 He is not using a kernel from the Dev DVD's as far as I know it is the kernel from 10.4.4, I do not see anything saying it is the old one. I think that it was tested on an older machine with 256mb of ram propably to make people think it isnt worth it. the 10.4.5 release has the kernel from 10.4.4. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11016-maxuss-please-fix-performance/#findComment-69093 Share on other sites More sharing options...
myzar Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 According to this article ( http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/macbookpro.ars/6 ) the performance of the hacked version 10.4.4 is barely better than an old G4. I'm still wondering why maxxuss is using the old kernel back from the early dev kits... Maxxuss is there any way to fix this? Maybe you can investigate better in hacking the new kernel than replacing it with the old one. See results below: huh that dell notebook is just thrash with a thrash cpu and that comparision is retarded anyway who idiot would compare a dualcore pentium m against a mobile p4 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11016-maxuss-please-fix-performance/#findComment-69114 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuruu Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 Hmmm, I have a P4 3.0GHz HT and 1gig of ram with an x1600 pro.... and my xbench score is 81.32, it only falls down in the thread test (no surprise there, only one core) and a mysterious problem where my uncached write of 4K blocks is only 1.21MB/sec *shrug* something screwy there.... Results 81.32 System Info Xbench Version 1.2 System Version 10.4.5 (8G1454) Physical RAM 1024 MB Model ADP2,1 Drive Type ST380817AS CPU Test 69.62 GCD Loop 98.89 5.21 Mops/sec Floating Point Basic 74.48 1.77 Gflop/sec vecLib FFT 51.38 1.70 Gflop/sec Floating Point Library 69.19 12.05 Mops/sec Thread Test 109.30 Computation 89.40 1.81 Mops/sec, 4 threads Lock Contention 140.60 6.05 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads Memory Test 63.64 System 70.76 Allocate 80.85 296.90 Kalloc/sec Fill 79.47 3864.10 MB/sec Copy 57.32 1184.00 MB/sec Stream 57.82 Copy 55.72 1150.83 MB/sec Scale 56.64 1170.23 MB/sec Add 59.98 1277.75 MB/sec Triad 59.14 1265.15 MB/sec Quartz Graphics Test 92.80 Line 97.63 6.50 Klines/sec [50% alpha] Rectangle 86.08 25.70 Krects/sec [50% alpha] Circle 86.88 7.08 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha] Bezier 98.29 2.48 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha] Text 96.78 6.05 Kchars/sec OpenGL Graphics Test 137.83 Spinning Squares 137.83 174.85 frames/sec User Interface Test 120.24 Elements 120.24 551.86 refresh/sec Disk Test 48.76 Sequential 91.95 Uncached Write 91.04 55.89 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 87.90 49.74 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 91.42 26.76 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 98.00 49.25 MB/sec [256K blocks] Random 33.18 Uncached Write 11.47 1.21 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 69.02 22.10 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 92.49 0.66 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 124.12 23.03 MB/sec [256K blocks] Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11016-maxuss-please-fix-performance/#findComment-69119 Share on other sites More sharing options...
roybotnik Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 According to this article ( http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/macbookpro.ars/6 ) the performance of the hacked version 10.4.4 is barely better than an old G4. I'm still wondering why maxxuss is using the old kernel back from the early dev kits... Maxxuss is there any way to fix this? Maybe you can investigate better in hacking the new kernel than replacing it with the old one. See results below: He is using the kernel from 10.4.4. Just read his site. That laptop ars used must suck and be improperly configured, as stated before most people with 3.0Ghz P4s are getting ~80 in Xbench. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11016-maxuss-please-fix-performance/#findComment-69283 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sigxcpu Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 macbook pro scores ONLY 53????? my hp nc8000 scored 48 and it's single core, 1.6GHz and ati 9600 mobility onboard. maybe macbook pros simply suck Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11016-maxuss-please-fix-performance/#findComment-69289 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrunner Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 You should really read more of the review and this forum before asking for "fix performance"Overall scores for the three machines were about what was expected, with the MacBook Pro standing at 53.71, the AlBook G4 at 45.73, and the Dell P4 at 22.96—a score no doubt affected by the exceptionally poor performance in the User Interface test. Without that score factored in, the Dell performed pretty well comparatively. One can only imagine what Mac OS X would be like on it if it were actually supported!This can be fixed by disabling Beam Synchronizing with Quartz Debug: I also ran XBench with Beam Synchronizing disabled on the MacBook Pro (which requires you to install the Developer Tools) and got a score of 161.15 in the User Interface test, a significant increase from the previous score of 27.52.You can find a thread from this forum here: http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?s=...indpost&p=65433 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11016-maxuss-please-fix-performance/#findComment-69308 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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